Tempestuous Weather- Melancholy Accident Liverpool Mercury November 1838

Captain HOLDREDGE of the George Washington states that seldom has he had a more tempestuous passage from New York than the one just performed. For the first week easterly gales prevailed; but during the last ten days, hurricanes from the S.W. occurred every four-and-twenty-hours and did great damage both to the sails and the rigging.

On Thursday off Cape Clear, a tremendous blow carried away the ship’s foretopgallant mast, and caused other damage. While the men were aloft, clearing away the wreck, a spar struck one of them on the head. The poor fellow fell from the yard into the sea which was terribly agitated, and was never seen afterwards